Philip IV, known as the Beautiful, king of France from 1285 to 1314, owes his nickname to his immense stature and the beauty of his impassive face. “It is neither a man nor a beast, it is a statue .” said of him the French prelate Bernard Saisset. His reign is considered by historians to be one of t
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was the one who carried out the Triumvirate with Oktavianus and Antonius. What did you actually do? I dont think anyone can respond to that. To be honest, he hasnt done anything in history. The prestigious Aemilia family Lepidus is from the prestigious Aemilia gens, who
This is the true story on which the movie «The Last Samurai is inspired. » (2003), starring Tom Cruise and directed by Edward Zwick. Tom Cruise plays Nathan Algren , a US Army soldier who arrives in Japan during the Meiji Restoration, a transitional period that ended the Tokugawa Shogunate . The cla
As the Latin saying goes De gustibus non est disputandum ” (“there is no dispute about tastes” or its equivalent “there is nothing written about tastes”), it is difficult and risky to qualify a product as the best, and even more so when the product we are talking about is wine… Antiquity. So, in the